Major/Minor Requirements

Departmental

• at least 32 credits
• at least 12 credits at the 300 level

Interdisciplinary
(Requirements set by the interdisciplinary program committee)

• at least 40 credits
• at least 20 credits at the 300 level, divided between two or more disciplines

Special
(Designed by the student and at least two advisors)

• at least 40 credits
• at least 20 credits at the 300 level, divided between two or more disciplines

Outside the Major

1. All students who elect single departmental majors must complete at least 68 credits outside the major department, including substantial work in a single, non-major field. There are several ways to meet this requirement:

A recorded minor, consisting of a minimum of sixteen credits beyond the 100 level in a field outside the major. The minor may take one of two forms.

1. A minor within a standard major field. This minor:

1. Must include at least four credits at the 300 level, unless this specification is waived or modified by the department or program concerned;
   
2. Must be approved by a designated member or members of that department or program if any work in the minor is done outside Mount Holyoke, if the minor differs from requirements outlined in the catalogue, or if the proposed minor department or program so specifies;
   
3. May be in a traditional, single-discipline (for example, politics, geology, Spanish) or in an interdisciplinary program (women's studies, Jewish studies, critical social thought).

B. A special minor of the student's devising (for example, marine studies). This minor:

1. May well include one or more 300-level courses among the minimum four courses required, but need not do so in all cases;
   
2. Must be approved by the student's major advisor, and should involve appropriate consultation with qualified faculty in the proposed fields, but does not require formal department approval;
   
3. May not have a title identical with the name of any existing major.
   

 II.   Students may complete an existing Five-College certificate program. Certification is currently offered in African studies; Buddhism; International Relations; Latin American studies;
Logic; Middle Eastern Studies; and Native American Indian Studies

III.   Completion of a double major Students fulfill the requirements for two, separate major programs, which need not, but certainly may, be related. As with fulfillment of other "outside the major" requirements, students may not apply the same course towards both programs.

Students who elect special or interdisciplinary majors are exempt from the outside-the-major requirement.

Regardless of how a student meets this requirement, no course may be applied towards both the major and the minor/certificate/second major.